Publications by authors named "J C Lucero"
The purpose of this study was to examine the associations of an online coaching intervention that included goal setting with movement behaviors and perceived general health (GH) and emotional wellbeing (EW) in college students. Participants were college students from a university within the western United States (=257; 57.2% female).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients presenting to Emergency Departments (ED) with opioid use disorder may be candidates for buprenorphine treatment, making EDs an appropriate setting to initiate this underused, but clinically proven therapy. Hospitals are devoting increased efforts to routinizing buprenorphine initiation in the ED where clinically appropriate, with the greatest successes occurring in academic medical centers. Overall, however, clinician participation in these efforts is suboptimal.
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- Partial cystectomy (PC) can be beneficial for some patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), but its effectiveness may be limited if standard treatments like neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) aren’t used.
- A study involving 2,832 patients found that those who received NAC with PLND had significantly better overall survival (OS) compared to those treated with just PC, with median OS of 76.5 months for PLND only and not reached for the combination therapy.
- Factors such as private insurance, receiving NAC, and sufficient lymph node removal positively impacted OS, while older age, higher comorbidity index, and
Age and racial and ethnic disparities in filled buprenorphine prescriptions post-emergency department visit in Nevada.
J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open
October 2024
Objectives: We described age, gender, race, and ethnicity associations with filling buprenorphine prescriptions post-emergency department (post-ED) visits.
Methods: We analyzed 1.5 years (July 1, 2020-December 31, 2021) of encounter-level Medicaid ED and retail pharmacy claims data obtained from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.